Posted on 16 December 2013.
MyEnvironment members and supporters are calling for a review of logging laws after their failed appeal. 112190_01. Picture: KATH GANNAWAY.
By KATH GANNAWAY
http://mountainviews.starcommunity.com.au/mail/2013-12-16/vicforests-logs-on/
ENVIRONMENT group MyEnvironment has lost its appeal against a 2012 Supreme Court decision that found in favour of State Government logging arm VicForests.
The decision paves the way for logging to resume in three Toolangi coupes that have been subject to an injunction for the past two years.
It took just ...

By JESSE GRAHAM. 19th November 2013.
http://mountainviews.starcommunity.com.au/mail/2013-11-19/national-park-push-goes-on/
MOMENTUM continued to build for a new national park in Toolangi last week, following a speech to environmental and anti-logging groups in Healesville.
Wilderness Society Victorian campaigns manager Amelia Young spoke to members of Healesville Environment Watch Incorporated (HEWI), the Knitting Nannas of Toolangi (KNOT), My Environment, Mt Toolbewong Landcare Group, Friends of the Leadbeater’s Possum and other groups on Thursday 14 November.
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By JESSE GRAHAM. Posted on 19 November 2013.
http://mountainviews.starcommunity.com.au/mail/2013-11-19/tree-change-for-possum-protest/
ANTI-LOGGING is the centre of a young conservationist’s protest in Toolangi, which has seen her take to the treetops until the end of the year.
Hannah Patchett began her vigil in a red tree house about 25 metres from the ground on Sunday 10 November in the forest, and plans to stay there until Christmas.
The 20-year-old’s stay in the tree house, which borders a scheduled logging coupe, is to protest against clear-fell logging in areas ...

November 26, 2013. Peter Hannam -Environment Editor, The Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/animals/animals-going-extinct-while-millions-in-funding-go-squandered-20131125-2y65s.html
Not all hope lost: Efforts to save the yellow-footed rock wallaby have had some success. Photo: Natalie Grono
Animals are going extinct and millions of dollars in Australian endangered species funding are being squandered because of poor planning and monitoring, leading environmental scientists say.
If data on the welfare of an endangered species is ...

Ecologist says Australia has a 'dreadful' track record in planning, monitoring and responding to threats to endangered species
Oliver Milman. theguardian.com.
Tuesday 26 November 2013 15.02 AEST
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/26/australia-under-fire-for-failing-to-protect-threatened-animals
A quokka munches on a leaf on Rottnest island in WA, home of the world's only sizeable quokka population. Photograph: Adam Gartrell/AAPIMAGE
Australia is failing to protect its endangered species due a “dreadful” track record in planning, ...

November 11, 2013. Thomas O'Byrne.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/protester-occupies-forest-treehouse-to-protect-leadbeaters-possum-20131110-2xa5p.html
Staying put: protester Hannah Patchett. Photo: Simon Schluter
Perched 25 metres off the ground upon a mountain ash tree, Hannah Patchett's new home lacks the luxuries enjoyed by most 20-year-olds.
But the bright red treehouse, high in the Toolangi State Forest 80 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, was designed for a purpose - to highlight the plight of Victoria's faunal emblem.
The ...

By Alex White- Hosted by The Guardian.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/nov/14/toolangi-treehouse-victoria-leadbeaters-possum
This guest blog by The Wilderness Society's Amelia Young highlights the campaign by supporters of the miraculous Leadbeater's Possum to stop the logging of its last remaining habitat.
Little Red Toolangi Treehouse - Photo by Melanie Erler
It may surprise many that logging of high conservation value, old-growth forests continues in Australia. In the state of Victoria, areas of pristine forest are ...

Rachel Carbonell reported this story on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 08:03:00
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3829258.htm
TONY EASTLEY: Certainly CSG is on electors minds. As we travelled from the Liverpool Plains to Nimbin there were plenty of anti-CSG signs on the entrances to properties on the roads as we drove the seven hours north-east towards the coast and the Queensland border.
CSG, climate change and carbon pricing have dominated federal debate, shadowing other environmental issues.
In Victoria, environmentalists say the last of the unprotected old growth ...

Tom Nightingale reported this story on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 08:06:00
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3829260.htm
TONY EASTLEY: The Coalition's environment spokesman, Greg Hunt was explaining his party's climate change policy in Adelaide last night.
While he was there, he also told AM the Coalition plans to create a position of Threatened Species Commissioner.
Tom Nightingale reports.
TOM NIGHTINGALE: Many of Australia's animals, plants and birds aren't found anywhere else in the world.
But Greg Hunt says there's too many species at serious risk of extinc...